The decision to nix the cartoon was explained as an attempt to shield audiences from offensive political content or from risqué language. But the papers have already had an earful from audience members who believe they can make decisions for themselves and do not need to be protected from a satirical political cartoon. To add your voice, see a list of papers that have censored the cartoon below – is your local paper among them?

Universal UClick Syndicate, which distributes the comic strip, has heard from 40-50 newspapers requesting substitute “Doonesbury” strips (though this number seems rather low given the list of newspapers censoring the comic)

– originally was not going to publish, but did, deciding it is “fair comment”

Oregonian

– “In next week’s strip, ‘Doonesbury’ author Garry Trudeau, in our judgment, went over the line of good taste and humor in penning a series on abortion using graphic language and images inappropriate for a comics page”

List of newspapers that the Daily Cartoonist was able to verify did not run the comic/moved it from the comics section:

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